Day: February 10, 2011

Databent work by two fellow dump.fm users, AGT528 (left) and Scotty2Hotty69, printed out, mailed, and installed in my studio. Scotty's was a purchase; AGT528's is a trade (haven't sent mine yet).
Am thinking here about circulation among screen-based art, "social media," mail, and objects in physical space (could give it a fancy name like "Dispersion" but the reader will be spared--well, maybe "capitalism lite").
I have some work by LoVid, John Pomara, and others acquired by similar means; the beginnings of a modest glitch collection. Cue academic essay with footnotes about creating hierarchies and leveraging them for institutional power; yet, something about these errors of representation being something to aggregate and preserve appeals: a kind of underground network of treasured discards, tokens of a shared belief in the phrase "stop making sense," an invisible city of fifth floor walkups connected by mail and AOL.

Update: See next post. The point of the above jpeg isn't to document two pieces (hence no links to high def details) but as a simple thought experiment to envision how screen based work could translate into a domestic environment. The Umbrico jpeg referenced in the next post does anticipate that you will click through to additional documentation but the jpeg itself says very little beyond communicating a sense of vastness.

Now the next step is to send this image off to mainland China and have it painted on canvas by photorealistic artisans and--oh, wait, that would be really lame because it's an eight year old idea, at least, and the jpeg is just fine without the bogus commodifyin'.

Update: per andrej: "wowbrow is simon whybray (hi simon), drummer for TEETH and he made this as an idea for promo/album art. not sure if it's still going to be used or not (no reason not to, it's good). TEETH is a three person ensemble of Simon Veronica and Ximon who are in that order represented by the triumvirate of etotems (e-idols? iidols?)"

Update 2: Simon Whybray explains more: "This is a mockup of our new press photo. I want to recreate this image. I would be Tom, Veronica would be the 4 eyed girl, and I guess we'll have to find a wig and a backpack for Ximon."